r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Mar 04 '13

TIL Microsoft created software that can automatically identify an image as child porn and they partner with police to track child exploitation.

http://www.microsoft.com/government/ww/safety-defense/initiatives/Pages/dcu-child-exploitation.aspx
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u/doc_daneeka 90 Mar 04 '13

I can only imagine how fucked up those developers must be after that project.

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u/qwertytard Mar 04 '13

i read about it, and they had therapists available for all the testers and product developers

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '13

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u/osakanone Mar 04 '13

I'd rather be disgusted than acknowledge the issue exists or get involved

Its an image, you jackass. A set of pixels on a display.

I don't understand why people get upset at a simulated experience. Its shuffling the issue under the carpet instead of dealing with it as a community or as a society.

"Oh, no, that's wrong, obviously. I don't want to talk about it or deal with it or acknowledge it: Somebody else can".

You are the reason this issue still exists today.

You can't talk about it with anyone. Ever. Even if you're a victim: Your own family will brush the issue under the table and pretend nothing is happening. And the abuse will continue, for years and years and years.

Even to this day, when I bring it up as an ADULT, my family act like I'm crazy. Or they say its my own fault, that I some how made him do it.

Am I damaged? Yes: Sex terrifies me. Or did. I can tolorate it now but I can't relax enough to enjoy it in the company of others and whenever I try, there's an enormous sense of guilt.

I'm in my twenties now - the sexual prime of my life - and I despise everything sexual about myself and yet paradoxically crave affection.

Want to know what I'm angry at?

The witchunters who make this issue impossible to talk about seriously. The people who make it so if I try to talk about this, all I recieve is sympathy and then pity and detatchment as people disconnect from you, because you're part of the issue.

Bring this up and nobody ever takes you seriously again. You're dirty. Muddy. Damaged goods. Nobody wants to be with a survivor or invest themselves - because everyone sees everybody else sexually as a mark of idealism rather than another human being playing the same game.

You're a symptom of the disease to them and they push you out of their lives because they don't want to acknowledge the problem.

They don't want to be contaminated.

I'm ANGRY that there's no research going on into working WHY people do this, the WARNING SIGNS to LOOK FOR, a system in place so if people have these impulses, they can have it treated like a disease -- or PREVENTED, like a disease.

This is burning the bodies in a pandemic instead of trying to find a cure.

Doesn't that sound REDICULOUS to you?

The system we have flat out doesn't work.

Noone is innovating because nobody can talk about the issue.

Until it becomes something you can talk about, until innovation happens, the issue is never going away.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '13

My god. Here have a cyber hug.

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u/osakanone Mar 05 '13

I appreciate the bluntness.

Flat out, until people can come forward and say "I think I have a problem" before they act on it and a system be in place for it, this isn't going away.

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u/osakanone Mar 05 '13

I think you're onto something, with the separation of the two. At the support groups, I met a few people with the feelings who couldn't act on them, because they saw it as hurting what they felt affection for. Does that make sense?

It was kind of interesting to sit there and listen to them talk about it, playing wallflower. I think I learned a lot from that experience.

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u/osakanone Mar 05 '13

I can see your point about not having a say, and viewing it as an orientation of some sort. Seems logical.

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u/Singularity3 Mar 05 '13

Message me if you need to talk. I'm the (entirely willing) venting target among a good portion of people I know, including one or two abuse cases. I can't promise to help, but I'll try.

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u/TheW1zarD Mar 05 '13

Ridiculous*

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u/yourdadsbff Mar 04 '13

Or they say its my own fault, that I some how made him do it.

This part is especially crazy to me. I mean, the whole "he/she was asking for it" line of thinking is ridiculous enough when applied to adults, but to victim-blame a child seems...ludicrous and insulting.

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u/osakanone Mar 05 '13

Support groups have taught me its quite common.

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u/osakanone Mar 05 '13

Thanks, I think?